National Signing Day 2021: Top 25 recruiting rankings – Alabama wins another crown
By John Buhler
National Signing Day college football recruiting rankings are in and it’s no surprise to see Alabama on top but there are surprises in the Top 25 classes.
National Signing Day has arrived and we have some college football recruiting classes to dissect.
It may not seem like much, but this is one of the most important days of the college football calendar year. If a team wins in recruitment, it will go a long way towards winning on the gridiron on future fall Saturdays. Should a team struggle in recruitment, it could be in a mess of trouble down the line. Here are the 25 best recruiting classes for the 2021 cycle, according to 247Sports.
Top 25 college football recruiting rankings
- Alabama Crimson Tide
- Ohio State Buckeyes
- Georgia Bulldogs
- LSU Tigers
- Clemson Tigers
- Oregon Ducks
- USC Trojans
- Texas A&M Aggies
- Notre Dame Fighting Irish
- Michigan Wolverines
- Oklahoma Sooners
- Miami Hurricanes
- Florida Gators
- North Carolina Tar Heels
- Wisconsin Badgers
- Tennessee Volunteers
- Texas Longhorns
- Maryland Terrapins
- Ole Miss Rebels
- Nebraska Cornhuskers
- Penn State Nittany Lions
- Florida State Seminoles
- Iowa Hawkeyes
- Arkansas Razorbacks
- Mississippi State Bulldogs
The top five programs for the 2021 recruiting cycle come as no surprise. In order, they are the Alabama Crimson Tide, the Ohio State Buckeyes, the Georgia Bulldogs, the LSU Tigers and the Clemson Tigers. These programs regularly find themselves with top-five classes, almost certainly in the top 10 annually. It is why they are regular College Football Playoff contenders annually.
Rounding out the top 10 in order are the Oregon Ducks, the USC Trojans, the Texas A&M Aggies, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and the Michigan Wolverines. What is interesting about this next group of five teams is how strong the West Coast team’s classes are. Maybe many top talents in California want to play closer to home again, especially after the COVID year of 2020?
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